2007-08 Adopted Plan - Wake County Public School System

Glossarycalendar months. The fi rst pay period for the fi scal year is designated as“01” which refers to July, with the designation of “12” for June. The payperiod designation correlates to the calendar month in which paymentis made.P & CPurchasing and Contract - State agency that controls purchasingsupplies and equipment.Parent NotificationWCPSS must provide annual report cards on school performanceand teacher quality, as well as information about public school choiceoptions, to parents and the public – giving parents more informationthan they’ve ever had before.The report card merges NCLB info with the NC School’s Report Card,and will be available at www.ncreportcards.org.PARSPersonnel Activity Reporting SystemPart-time EmployeePart-time employee means an employee who works at least one-half ofthe hours worked by full-time employees in that class of work providedthat it is not less than twenty hours per week.Pay-as-you-go BasisA term used to describe a fi nancial policy by which capital outlays arefi nanced from current revenues rather than through borrowing.Pay LevelA level between 4-52 found in the NC Public School Personnel StateSalary Schedule which corresponds to the actual monthly or annual salary(not including salary supplements) based on the individual’s positionand classifi cation. For each position and within each administratorclassifi cation, there are several levels.Pay PeriodThere are twelve pay periods per fi scal year corresponding to the twelvePerformance IndicatorsSpecifi c quantitative and qualitative measures of work performed as anobjective of specifi c departments or programs.Performance MeasureData collected to determine how effectively or effi ciently a program is atachieving its objectives.Performance StandardThe performance standard is a calculation of the percent of all teststaken in the school that are at or above grade level. Since every testscore is considered to be either at or below “grade level” or “profi cient”,it is relatively easy to count all of the tests with profi cient-level scoresand then fi gure out what percent of tests these represent.Schools that attain specifi c levels of profi ciency may be awarded honortitles. For example, a School of Excellence is a school that reached itsgrowth target AND in which 90 percent of tests were at the profi cientlevel. Similarly, a School of Distinction is one which reached its growthgoal AND has at least 80 percent of tests at the profi cient level.Since fi rst implementation, the ABCs program has been altered andmodifi ed to include alternative schools, as well as being changed to fi tbetter with the federal No Child Left Behind accountability program.Permanent EmployeePermanent employee means an employee who is either: (a) employedwith the expectation of permanent employment, to fi ll a position that isto be permanent if present needs and funds continue; or (b) employed,for at least six full consecutive monthly pay periods within one contract,to replace one or more employees who are on leave of absence withoutpay. Permanent employees may be employed in a full-time or part-timestatus.Per Pupil AllotmentAn allocation based on a per student basis as determined by the board403 FY 2007-08 Plan for Student Success